There are hundreds of Obsidian plugins out there.
Look for simplicity. A simple life is a better one.
After one year, Obsidian has become my main app in my PKM.
I just need 10 plugins.
1. Calendar
It creates a simple calendar view for visualizing and navigating between your daily notes.
It’s impossible not living with a calendar by your side.
Remember: you manage time, not tasks.
2. Periodic Notes
It expands on the idea of daily notes and introduces weekly and monthly notes.
The daily note became mandatory for me. It’s a unique entry point to my system. Everything begins in it.
This plugin allows me to manage my reviews: weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly.
3. Outliner
Outlining is the way I think. I love Roam and Logseq.
This plugin brings a similar experience. In fact, I’m not using Roam or Logseq anymore.
The 2 next plugins improve even more the experience.
4. Indentation Guides
It adds indentation guides, aka relationship lines, to the obsidian editor.
You see vertical lines between your bullets.
That gives you guidance, structured thinking.
5. Zoom
The cherry on top to build your outlining experience.
It allows you to zoom into heading and lists.
It brings focus and concentration to your life.
6. Window Collapse
It collapses sidebars using hotkeys.
The fastest way to spread your workspace, concentrate and avoid distractions.
You can collapse one sidebar, the other one, or both.
7. Sliding Panes (Andy’s Mode)
It changes the way panes in the main workspace are handled, inspired by the UI of Andy Matuschak’s notes.
Instead of shrinking the workspace to fit panels, the panels will remain a fixed width (but resizable) and stack so you can scroll between them.
I haven’t found a faster way to navigate through my notes.
8. Style Settings
I’ve always defended UX/GUI affects performance.
I’ve tested I produce more if I’m inside a beautiful environment, one that speeds up my performance.
This plugin offers control for adjusting theme, plugin, and snippet CSS variables.
9. Readwise Official
If you’re a Readwise heavy user, this is your “perfect fit”.
It enables you to easily and automatically export all your digital highlights to Obsidian.
100% guaranteed: it’s developed and maintained by the Readwise team.
10. Dataview
Bring dynamism to your notes.
Treat your vault as a database you can query from.
No need to be a coder.
Simple instructions. Amazing results.
Takeaways
- The more you simplify your systems, the better you’ll perform.
- Gaining clarity, focus, space lets you breathe, live a life of fulfillment.
- Move your PKM to the simplest version. It’ll drive you to the best version of yourself.
Photo by Sean Oulashin on Unsplash.